Cuban political prisoner Alfredo Domínguez Batista has his own problems, starting with an unjust 14-year prison sentence handed down in 2003 because of his political activism. As a political prisoner, he is targeted for special maltreatment by guards in the Castro gulag; most recently, reports were that Domínguez was being denied visits by a Catholic priest.
However, that has not prevented Domínguez from petitioning officials to grant clemency to another prisoner at the Las Tunas provincial prison, Juan Carlos Ortiz Durán, who is suffering from terminal cancer.
A Cuban prison, with its bad food and poor medical care, is no place for Ortiz to die. But as Domínguez has demonstrated with his act of selflessness, there are in the Castro gulag still plenty of examples of courage and character that give confidence that in the end, good will triumph over evil in Cuba.
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